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Young dolphins are breaking bad in the wild. Drug use among the sea mammals came to light when a documentary film crew observed a group getting high on toxins produced by a specific kind of puffer fish, Britain’s Independent reports on its website. The dolphins were seen carefully chewing on a puffer fish and passing […] …

Dallas Zoo officials are investigating why two male lions suddenly attacked and killed Johari, a 5-year-old lioness, in front of a crowd Sunday afternoon at the “Giants of the Savanna” exhibit. Zoo officials say the official cause of death is suffocation. Witnesses say one of the male lions was biting Johari on the …

Alerted to changing conditions by a Houston photographer, an archaeology team is working against the clock off Galveston to get a 3-D record of the remains of the Hatteras, an iron-hulled Union gunboat sunk by the South on Jan. 11, 1863. The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration is leading the charge and credits underwater photographer […] …

Energy and computers help push five Texas counties into the top 10 job markets in a new CNN Money survey. The website’s study tracks a decade of growth in 2000-11 and ranks a total of 25 U.S. counties based on job opportunities and quality of life. (See the full list and CNN Money’s analysis here.) […] …

Famed evangelist Billy Graham is being treated at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., for a pulmonary infection thought to be bronchitis, NBC News reports online. Graham was alert and in good spirits upon his admission, according to Mission Hospital Dr. David Pucci tells MSNBC that Graham was resting comfortably Sunday morning in stable condition. Graham […] …

Move over Austin, L.A. and the Big Apple. Forget Dallas and San Antonio. Stuffy old Houston is now the “coolest” big city in America, according to Forbes. The business website used seven “data points” in ranking 65 of the largest metro areas in the U.S. Those criteria include entertainment, arts and culture, restaurants and bars, […] …

Automatic doors allowed a year-0ld female black bear to wander into a Sears store about 20 minutes before closing time Saturday night, startling shoppers at Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. It turned out the bear was likely more afraid than the shoppers, who quickly evacuated the store. No one was harmed […] …

A Manhattan-size iceberg has broken off a Greenland glacier in an event scientists expected almost a year ago. Christian Science Monitor reports that the berg measures 46 square miles and was part of the Petermann Glacier. It’s big, but not the biggest. A similar event happened in August 2010, but on a much more massive […] …

DARPA scientists have figured out a way to put out fires with sound waves and electricity. But this breakthrough by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is intended for closed areas – jet cockpits or ships — not your average Western wildfire. According to the July 12 post on the website: For example, a shipboard […] …

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